Kristóf Palasics (born 19 April 2002) is a Hungarian

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player for ONE Veszprém and the Hungary national team.

Career

Club

Kristóf started his career at Gödöllői Főnix ISE, where he developed his skills under the professional guidance of former top goalkeeper Tamás Zsembery. In 2016, he certified for PLER-Budapest. In August 2018, he signed a contract with

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. The goalkeeping talent spent the first league seasons - with the exception of a few

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matches - in the youth team of the Veszprém team. From the 2020/2021 season, he was a member of the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B BFKA-Veszprém with a double playing permit. From 2021, he played on loan in the

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team for 2 years. From 2023, he was loaned to BM Logroño La Rioja, the fifth-place team in the Spanish league, for an extra year. He will start the 2024/25 season on loan at the Portuguese team

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. In January 2025, it was announced that he would not extend his contract with

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until the summer of 2025, but would instead join the German team

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. Due to

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's injury, he was ordered back to

from his loan contract in March 2025.

National team

He was 9th with the Hungarian team at the 2021 Youth European Championship. As a member of the junior national team, he participated in the 2022 Junior European Championship where the Hungarian team became the 5th. He was a member of the traveling squad for the

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for the first time in a world tournament, but he did not play in a single match at the World Championship. At the age of 21, on April 30, 2023, he made his debut in the senior national team in

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in the Hungary-Georgia men's European qualifying match 30–31. He participated in the 2023 Junior World Championship, where

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won the silver medal. He also participated in the

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as a member of the

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. (5th place, 5 matches / 0 goals). He also participated in the

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, where the Hungarian team finished 10th (4 matches / 0 goals). He also participated in the

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as a member of the

. (8th place, 6 matches / 0 goals).

Honours

National team

* Junior World Championship ** :

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Club

;BFKA-Veszprém * Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B ** : 2021 ;BM Logroño La Rioja *

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** : 2023 ;ONE Veszprém *

** :

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**: 2025

References

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Kristóf Palasics
at EHF
Kristóf Palasics
at MKSZ {{DEFAULTSORT:Palasics, Kristof Hungarian male handball players Living people 2002 births Veszprém KC players S.L. Benfica handball players MT Melsungen players Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate handball players in Portugal Hungarian expatriate handball players Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Hungarian expatriate handball players in Germany Liga ASOBAL players Handball-Bundesliga players Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Hungary 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen